Waht is it with you soft city types...sit in your offices all day staring at a computer...devoid of any contact with lifeforms unless they email you...

Bullocks are just curious animals...yes, they will run at you if you turn your back on them but they will rarely get too close. Cattle again will nearly always back off if you go towards them...bulls can be different......there are laws about which breeds can be left in fields with footpaths in them...I take it these breeds are placid...but you never know. I must admit i am a bit wary of the ones with horns.

see my picture of Castle Dore...very friendly bunch...

The best story i have is about a phonecall i had a couple of years back from a gentleman up north who had tried to do one of my walks in my Bodmin Moor books. All had gone well until he got half way round...he then went to enter a field through which the route went. The field was full of young bullocks who immediatly ran after him.....

He phoned me to complain that i had not mentioned in my book that they were in the field...

Mr H